Relevant Standard(s)
Student Podcasting meets California NETS Technology Standard #4 as follows: Technology communications tools
Students use telecommunications to collaborate, publish, and interact with peers, experts, and other audiences.
Students use a variety of media and formats to communicate information and ideas effectively to multiple audiences. Explicit Unit Goals
Essential Understanding
The desired essential understanding from this lesson is that technology, computers, and the Internet can be used as a medium for student expression, news reports, and learning.
Core Content Understanding
Students become more invested in learning when they are "put in charge" of the process through all aspects of the Podcast production process.
Skills
At the end of successfully creating the Podcast students will have learned the following skills:
Content reproduction, design and planning of audio content.
Communication skills: interviewing, oral speaking skills, effective and persuasive communication.
Audio production: recording, editing.
Internet delivery via RSS feed and posting to iTunes software.
Podcast management and advertising.
Creativity and expression through spoken word.
Questions to Focus Instruction
How can you as students get your voice and opinion heard? Is there a way to have kids get together and make some kind of a show, a radio show perhaps, where we can talk about things concerning us, and to talk about what's going on at school? Can we use computers to so this? - these are questions I used with my kids at Epiphany School. Unit Question(s)
Who will listen to the Podcast? Is it everyone in the school? Is it parents? Is it students in another state or another grade level?
STAGE 2 ASSESSMENT Evidence of Understanding
The teacher will have evidence of understanding by the successful completion of a quality Podcast, designed and produced by their students, where each student was able to fully participate.
Performance Task and/or Student Performance
Each student will work within a pair on all aspects of the production process. Each pair is given a topic for the Podcast. The pair plan, record, edit and finally post their section of the Podcast combined with other students in the class. The final outcome is the full, completed Podcast.
Assessment Criteria
Demonstrates basic computer skills and is able to complete Podcasting tasks after learning the recording/editing process from the teacher.
Participates fully in all areas of the Podcast production process.
Successfully completes their assigned portion of the Podcast.
STAGE 3 LEARNING EXPERIENECES & INSTRUCTION
Description of Learning Experiences and Activities
Stage One - Pre production:
Gather students and brainstorm content possible content ideas for the Podcast. Discuss details such as: What is the purpose of the Podcast? Who is our desired audience? What topics/themes should be covered during the recordings? Who will work on each portion of the Podcast.
After teacher practices the technical skills necessary, hold a series of workshops with students regarding the basics of audio recording/editing using software such as Apple's Garageband. Practice creating and editing a series of "rough" recordings and uploading them to test and refine the production process.
Have students group into pairs and assign topics/themes for the Podcast as decided by the student group.
Stage Two - Production:
Have students create rough scripts for use during the Podcast. Students can improvise and change the script of the Podcast on the fly
Hold recording sessions with students to produce the Podcast.
Edit audio content as desired using Apple's Garageband.
Stage Three - Post Production
Post audio file content to web server for publication.
Use RSS software to publish Podcast information to Podcasting directory.
Use iTunes to subscribe to and download Podcast.
Advertise Podcast availability to peers in school community.
Maintain and continue Podcast production.
This Unit Designed by :
Nathan Shelley nathan_shelley@yahoo.com
School of the Epiphany
Archdiocese of San Francisco
San Francisco, California
Relevant Standard(s)
Student Podcasting meets California NETS Technology Standard #4 as follows:
Technology communications tools
Students use telecommunications to collaborate, publish, and interact with peers, experts, and other audiences.
Students use a variety of media and formats to communicate information and ideas effectively to multiple audiences.
Explicit Unit Goals
Essential Understanding
The desired essential understanding from this lesson is that technology, computers, and the Internet can be used as a medium for student expression, news reports, and learning.
Core Content Understanding
Students become more invested in learning when they are "put in charge" of the process through all aspects of the Podcast production process.
Skills
At the end of successfully creating the Podcast students will have learned the following skills:
- Content reproduction, design and planning of audio content.
- Communication skills: interviewing, oral speaking skills, effective and persuasive communication.
- Audio production: recording, editing.
- Internet delivery via RSS feed and posting to iTunes software.
- Podcast management and advertising.
- Creativity and expression through spoken word.
Questions to Focus InstructionHow can you as students get your voice and opinion heard? Is there a way to have kids get together and make some kind of a show, a radio show perhaps, where we can talk about things concerning us, and to talk about what's going on at school? Can we use computers to so this? - these are questions I used with my kids at Epiphany School.
Unit Question(s)
Who will listen to the Podcast? Is it everyone in the school? Is it parents? Is it students in another state or another grade level?
STAGE 2 ASSESSMENT
Evidence of Understanding
The teacher will have evidence of understanding by the successful completion of a quality Podcast, designed and produced by their students, where each student was able to fully participate.
Performance Task and/or Student Performance
Each student will work within a pair on all aspects of the production process. Each pair is given a topic for the Podcast. The pair plan, record, edit and finally post their section of the Podcast combined with other students in the class. The final outcome is the full, completed Podcast.
Assessment Criteria
- Demonstrates basic computer skills and is able to complete Podcasting tasks after learning the recording/editing process from the teacher.
- Participates fully in all areas of the Podcast production process.
- Successfully completes their assigned portion of the Podcast.
STAGE 3 LEARNING EXPERIENECES & INSTRUCTIONDescription of Learning Experiences and Activities
Stage One - Pre production:
- Gather students and brainstorm content possible content ideas for the Podcast. Discuss details such as: What is the purpose of the Podcast? Who is our desired audience? What topics/themes should be covered during the recordings? Who will work on each portion of the Podcast.
- After teacher practices the technical skills necessary, hold a series of workshops with students regarding the basics of audio recording/editing using software such as Apple's Garageband. Practice creating and editing a series of "rough" recordings and uploading them to test and refine the production process.
- Have students group into pairs and assign topics/themes for the Podcast as decided by the student group.
Stage Two - Production:- Have students create rough scripts for use during the Podcast. Students can improvise and change the script of the Podcast on the fly
- Hold recording sessions with students to produce the Podcast.
- Edit audio content as desired using Apple's Garageband.
Stage Three - Post ProductionThis Unit Designed by :
Nathan Shelley
nathan_shelley@yahoo.com
School of the Epiphany
Archdiocese of San Francisco
San Francisco, California